Birth Archives - Different Truths

May 27, 2025
Sarala Balachandran
Poem

Healing Lost Love: The Power of Compassion

Sarala poignantly captures in verse the agony of an aged mother sent to an old-age home, exclusively for Different Truths. Oh God, how I cried to see that old...

March 31, 2025
Nikita Goel
Relationship & Lifestyle

Are Relationships Affected Adversely when Children Move Abroad?

Mostly, couples who settle abroad are hanging between two worlds. They are too foreign for their homeland and too foreign for the adopted country. The challenges of living away...

March 8, 2025
Payal Talreja
Gender

The Bitch, the Witch or That Woman on a Shaky Pedestal?

Millions of women are ostracised for what is normal, and in fact, a magical and powerful bodily function that enables the miracle of life. It is our fear of...

June 28, 2024
Anumita Roy
Multiculturalism, Potpourri

Fifteen Customs that are Distinctly American!

Anumita lists fifteen customs that are very different and stand out as American tradition/norms, which most foreigner find strange, initially. Slowly one understands and becomes a part of the flow, in...

June 24, 2024
Tapati Sinha
Cover Story, Health, History & Culture, Opinion

The Game of Life and Death…

The concept of ‘good death’ (euthanasia) existed in the ancient world. Medical assistance was not needed when the Homeric warrior died as a hero and was expected to accept...

August 30, 2023
Deeya Bhattacharya
Poem

Monsoon of Life/An Indefinite Truth

Monsoon of Life A sensuous poem celebrating monsoon from Deeya. The thread of life in vigilant eyesEvokes beautyEuphoria walks aboutin a threadbare realitymonsoons overhauled in backpack of worldliness smothers ceaseless effortsof...

May 19, 2023
Durgesh Verma
Poem

Fleeting Time!

A poem about death, by Durgesh, that sees life in harsh reality, for Different Truths. Fleeting timedigs graveso deep. From the spade of pendulumwhich does soundlike tick-tock. Sometimes we...

May 4, 2023
Rituparna Khan
Fiction, Short Story

A Nightmare

A poignant short story by Rituparna, based on a real-life experience. An exclusive for Different Truths. Birth and death are the ultimate truth in the universe and what oscillates...

April 27, 2023
Deeya Bhattacharya
Poem

A Love Story

Here’s a poignant prose-poem on love by Deeya, in Different Truths. The intensity, pain, and sensuousness come alive in her poetic lines. The futile weather-beaten pen failed to portray...

December 5, 2022
Shernaz Wadia
Gender, Human Rights

Why is it a Curse to be a Girl-child?

Shernaz fictionalises a real-life account where the daughter, a girl-child, in dire need of kidney transplant was left uncared for. No medical expenses were provisioned for her since she...

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